# OT: 1968 Tolkien documentary just released from BBC archives *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 May 2012* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Tony Ellis *02 May 2012, 19:06* Some of the Tolkien fans on the list might find this interesting - or at least amusing. http://good-report.com/5861/just-released-from-the-bbc-a-rare-1968-interview-with-j-r-r-tolkien-video This seems to be the programme JRR later wrote scathingly of to Donald Swann in my copy of The Letters of JRR Tolkien (Feb 29, 1968), except that there it's called 'Tolkien in Oxford'. --- ### Jeff Wilson *03 May 2012, 08:17 · in reply to Tony Ellis* > On 5/2/2012 2:06 PM, Tony Ellis wrote: > Some of the Tolkien fans on the list might find this interesting - or > at least amusing. > > http://good-report.com/5861/just-released-from-the-bbc-a-rare-1968-interview-with-j-r-r-tolkien-video We get to see both his hands have their full compliment of digits in the lower video. Right hand between 4:00 and 5:00, left between 7:00 and 8:00. Sorry, Lee. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ``` ---